A string of slight earthquakes have stricken northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Sunday.

The Ministry of Transport is considering piloting carbon trading or a carbon tax in the domestic shipping business, the Economic Information Daily reported on Monday.

Flash floods in Papua in eastern Indonesia on Sunday night has displaced over 1,000 people and damaged over 200 houses and other public facilities, an official of disaster relief agency said here o

The three waves of devastating floods in India's north state of Assam this year have left nearly 1.8 million children, along with their families, displaced, an assessment done by an NGO Save the Ch

China successfully launched the Practice-9 A and Practice-9 B satellites into space at 11:25 am Sunday, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said.

Corporate social responsibility has long been a buzzword in the boardrooms of the West, but it is relatively obscure in China.

China is expected to raise its forest coverage to 21.66 percent by 2015 in a bid to improve the country's ecological environment, a senior forestry official said Sunday.

China will have the world's second largest carbon trading scheme by 2014, or twice as big as Australia's regime, a latest report showed Thursday.

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) was resurgent in central China's Hunan Province in September, killing 6 and sickening 12,742, 62 of them seriously, local health authorities revealed on Thursday.

China's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday voiced strong dissatisfaction with the United States's affirmative final determinations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China, saying the dec